IMPERIAL MILITARISM. The Emperor of Germany is said to be ' pipeclay all over,' to use a soldier's phrase; and his palace resembles a military museum rather than a royal residence. Every room in it lias pictures of battles, portraits, busts, and statues of princes in uniform. In the eutrance-vestilmie figure two large ivimfmnc nrl.^1. 1,,'c \T.. charging the revolutionary rabble in 1848, when he whs prince, and just before that rabble compelled him to fly to London, disguised as a coachman, under the name of Muller. In the re ception-saloon, where stands a bronze statue of Frederick the Great, there are a number of shelves, some of which are covered with miniature models of cannon, rifles, and shells, and others with wooden statuettes, clad in the uniforms of almost every country in the world. It is in this suggestive chamber that his Majesty receives ambassadors and ministers. From the reception-chamber one passes into the flag-room, so called because the Prussian Guards have the p...

CELERY AS A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. Celery cooked is a very fine dish, both as nutriment and as a purifier of the blood. I will not enumerate the marvellous cures I have made with celery, for fear the medical men should attempt to worry me. Let me fear lessly say that rheumatism is impossible on such diet, and yet our medical men allowed rheumatism to kill in 1876 30,640 human beings — every case as unnecessary as a dirty face. Worse still, of the 30,481 registered as dying from heart disease, at least two-thirds of these are due, directly, more or less, to rheumatism and its ally, gout. What a trifle is smallpox, with its 2401 deaths, alongside au immense slayer of 20,000 human beings ; yet rheumatism, may be put aside for ever by simply obeying Nature's laws iu diet. Plainly, let me say, cold or damp never produces rheu matism, but simple developes it. The acid blood is tbe primary cause and the sustaining power of evil. While the blood is alkaline there can be no rheu matism, and eq...

MATCH-MAKING BUSYBODIES. The ^travelled Chinese philosopher who, by dint of travelling, became Gold smith's citizen of the world was fain to avow that ?ndthiiig - gave him sufch ? pleasure the wide world over as to see two young persons wno were uiiuxiciy enamoured of each other married. ?' Nature has, in some measure, formed me for a watch-maker. for it had given him a soul to sympathise with every mode of human happiness. This is tbe fair side of the match-making disposition. But there is another side, on which that disposition shows to less advantage ; for your match-maker is Bometimes a mere busybody, heedless of results, and intent only on the means — what Ilamlet called the fussy lord chamberlain, 'a rash intruding fool ' — one of the pack of fools who rush in where the, wiser fear to tread — a pack of officious meddlers, imperti nentf thick-skinned, and irrepressible. Often, it may be, this officiousness is too ridiculous to warrant grave invec tive. ? 'Quite, as often, perha...

ON THE NERVES. An interesting book might be. made out of the curiosities of nervousness from a contemporary standpoint. The elder Disraeli has somewhere a chapter on the subject ; but if our memory serves us correctly, his instances trench rather upon the hysterical conditions, the monomanias, the wild fanciful delusions of the disordered imagination, thau upon the prosaic feature of the dis temper. He instances men who could not bear the sight of old women, and fainted dead away if a grandmother showed herself : others who, if they heard a rat in the wall, took it for a ghost and got up and prayed fervently ; and such things. The present age furnishes more rational imaginings, born of the daily papei-s, emphasised by indigestion, and riveted by the surpris ing eloquence of the diurnal quidnuncs. For instance, there are plenty of people living at this moment who would warmly refuse to get into bed before looking under it to see that no man lay there. There are others who pass the ni...

EXTRAORDINARY EXHUMA TION OF A CORPSE. A strange affair happened at Linkin horne, Cornwall. A man named William Seymour, a miner, was found dead in Phoenix Mine. It was supposed he had died in a fit, and a verdict to that effect was returned at the coroner's inquest, j He was interred at tlie burial ground or Daney Uhapel. A neighbour or tlie deceased the next night dreamed that a gentleman in a carriage and pair had driven up to the house of the mother of the deceased said her son was not dead, but had been buried alive. This dream being noised abroad, the next night seven or eight men went to the graveyard, dug up the coffin, and carried it to a chapel. They unscrewed the coffin-lid, and there was the body of their comrade apparently still living and breathing. So convinced were they of this that they sat him up, and while some attempted to revive him by stimu lants and friction, others ran off to the nearest surgeon, two miles distant. The surgeon, Mr. Newsam, soon arrived, and e...

A MISSING WILL. ' Lost, Stolen, or Strayed, the last Will and Testament of a deceased ? Royal Prince, late heir-presumptive to a Euro pean throne.' Such (says the Daily ?Telegraph) is the strange purport of in numerable paragraphs in Continental newspapers, rife with ingenious specula tiuu xeajjeuiiiug wie late ui a uocuuienTi alleged to have existed down to (he very day of Prince Henry of Orange's death, and to have contained the testa mentary dispositions of that august personage, who was one of the wealthiest gentlemen in Christendom. We can discover no ' 'trustworthy authority for the statement that such a will was ever drawn and signed ; but a story respect ing it is certainly current abroad, of 'wliich we reproduce only the Version obtaining most 'general credence. It is alleged that before leaving the Hague for Berlin in order to be married last autumn to the' Princess Marie von Hohenzollern Prince Henry of Orange made his will— a' likely enough act for a . mail. in his 58th ...

The heavy gold-find at Hawkins's Hill has been confirmed. Twelve thousand bushels of wheat have been sold at Port Pirie at 4s. 8d. per bushel. By the Suez mail the news coines that there is a rumour of the approaching mar riage of Princess Beatrice and the Duke of Aosta. Cook and Kilkenny gave an exhibition of billiards at Newcastle on Wednesday night. The latter, who received 200'points in 750, ' won easily. 1 The Australasian, writing of the totali- ; sator, saj'S : — '? Better twenty of such fair . machines, than 011c of tbe scoundrels, such as S we find amongst the betting fraternity.' f Gibbs, Shallard, aud Co., printers, Sydney, I have collected and published the principal i speeches delivered by the late Governor, Sir ? Hercules Robinson, duriug the administra- * tion of the Government of this colony. Mr. E. Bennet has received a cominis- A sion to attend the Northern Circuit in lien aJB of Joseph Meynott, who was unable to attend ' ^ the Gunnedah and Narrabri courts on ac- 0...

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. The Bishop of GoPLnuitN'. —His Lordship the Bishop of Goulburn arrived in Wagga from Urana on Thursday, but staj?ed only &amp; short time in the towu. He left for Sydney yesterday afternoon. The Hatfield Bushrangers. —The four men known by this title arrived in Wagga vfcstprdav cvnninrr. and wprp frinsirrnnH r.n f-.lift gaol for safe keeping pending their trans I mission this morning. In appearance they I were a miserable and puny lot of youths, and looked little like men capable of the dariug outrage for which they were condemned Bacheltjer's Panorama. — This panorama was exhibited last night in the Masonic Hall to a fair number of spectators. The sccneB are illustrations of Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' and the subjects are nobly conceived aud splendidly executed, the whole forming a pictorial exhibition of special excellence. One drawback the exhibition has, and that is the tamene8&amp; with which the delineator describes from Miltonf8 glorious verse the ...

STRANGE CASE OF BIGAMY. -%N'the TthFaTmiary Sarah AnnGuer riptj 24, giving her address as IJnfon grove, Clapham, was charged, on: re mand at Lambeth Police Court, \pith feloniously intermarrying with Jatnes Simon 'Holman, her' husband, Luke Dawson Guerrier, being then and Aow alive. Mr. Fullager, in opening 'the case, said on the 5th December, 1875, the prisoner was married to Guerrier at St Faith's Church, City, and, according to the certificate, described herself as a spinster, her maiden name being Savali Ann Rolfe. Her husband was in a large way of business as a meat sales man in the metropolitan market, and after the marriage they resided : in Union-grove, Clapham. In May last Holman, who was an engine-driver in the service of tbe London, Chatham, ; .'ami Dover Railway Company, saw her frequently travelling on the line, and owing to her taking notice of him, he ultimately spoke to her. She said she should like to make his acquaintance, and not knowing she was a married Woman he...

NARANDERA. - (From our Correspondent.) The races to be held on the Queen's Birth day, the programme of which haB already appeared, promise to be a complete success. The bill of fare has given general satisfaction, aud a number of owners have signified their intention of entering their steeds for the various events. Iu a sport-loving community like this thre is sure to be a large atnend ance of spectators. It seems certain that the efforts of tlie cnternrisinc nromoter. Mr. D. M. Piiuco, of the lliverina Hotel, will be well rewarded. Some scoundrel has, duriug the last couple of days, displayed his natural characteristics by laying a large number of poisoned baits on the Btreets of the town, the consequence being that several dogs have been destroyed. Mr. Buffrey, butcher, lost a splendid cattle dog on Tuesday, for which he had refused £30, and Mr. Essex, of Essex and Davis, butchers, had also a valuable cattle dog poisoned. Several collies aud canine pets are numbered with the dead,...

LAND NOTES. COMING LAND SALES. Waifga Wag||a .. .. May 28; June 4. Albury ? May 21 ; June 4. Corona .. .. ;. May21, 28; June4. Gundaga! ? May 28. Hay ? May 21, 28; June 4. Urana .. * .. .. May 21,28; June 4. Cootan.undra . . . . May 28. Deniliquin ? May 28 ; June 4. LiSD Office.— The following selections were taken up at the local Land Office on Thursday last: — W. J. E. Rnthwell 222a 3r, county Bourke, parish Kolkebert, being measured portion 82 ; N. W. Gowl land 49a 3r, Collarendon, parish Trenctliin, beinff portion 0 ; Robert Heaelip 00a, county Bourke, parish Lacblan, to start from S.W. corner of portion 6, then to run W. along a road, iJien N., then E. to W. boun dary of said portion 6, then S. along said boundary to print of commencement ; Thomas Clark 120a, county Bourke, parish Kindra, commencing at N.W. corner of his 640a -portltin 25), and bounded on the S. by that land, and on.the E„ N„ and W. by lines to include the area : H. Manglesdorfi 57a, county Bourke, parisli ' Me...

NARANDERA Friday. I he following ace the stock movements ! — May 12 : 754 wethers, from Gillenbah to Yanko Creek. (Norman Whitlaw's) ; 8000 mixed weaners, fron Brootong to Melrose (Lacblan, Oliver, and Co.'s), Gilbert in charge. May 13 : 2000 ewes, from North Goonigal to North Cogeldrie (M'Kinnon's. ) May 14 : 4000 fat wethers, from Wooyeo, Lacblan, to Melbourne (Mathews'), Redmond Jones iu charge. Gold at Shoalhaven Etvpr. — Mining affairs generally in the colony appear to be improving just at present. The Mining Department has received intelligence of a very important discovery at Yalwal. The information is conveyed in a letter from the warden's clerk at Nowra, Shoalhaven, and he states that West, Harvey, and others obtained 347oz. 7dwts. from 107 tons of stone at a depth of 28 feet. . This will, after snielt ing, give a return of £1280 for an outlay of about £120. Some tune bgo the sarne party had been quarrying stone from an immense lode of- quartz, going halves with the battery...

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Tiie usual fortnightly meeting of the Council was held on Thursday. Present : Ilia Worship the Mayor, Aldermen Wildman. Shaw, Mair, Bruce, Nixon, Bolton, and Evans. The minutes of the Special Meeting of the 8th inst. were read, and on the question of their confirmation, Aid. hvans pointed out that the (surveyors report on the bridge stated that the im properly driven piles did uot interfere with the general stability of the work, and that this appeared to be omitted in the minutes, and the omission was calculated to mislead. The Surveyor distinctly led them to believe that the work complained of would not inter fere with the stability of the bridge. The minutes were then confirmed. Outgoing correspondence was read, arising out of the directions of the previous meet ing, together with copy of letter of appli cation to A.J. S. Bank for an overdraft of £700 or £800. Letters were read from manager of A.J.S. Bank, grantine the required overdraft ; from contractors of n...

Friday, May 16. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Assault. — Eliza Ah Cann v. Tommy Ah Canu. Mr. Fitzhardinge for the complain ant, who charged the defendant with assault ing her. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined £1, with costs 4s. 10d., aud professional costs £1 Is. Abandoning Licensed House. — John U Kiley pleaded guilty to having abandoned his licensed house, the Travellers' Rest Inn, at Kyamba Creek, and his license was ac cordingly cancelled. Breach of By-laws. — Inspector of Nuisances v. M'Alister, licclecting to re move a stack of straw within 3 days from the 22nd April. The information drawn up by the Inspector of Nuisauces charged de fendant with failing to remove the straw, and as no such offence appeared in the by laws, which requires information to be laid for the erection of the stack, the Bench, poiuting out the flaw in the infor mation, dismissed it. The defendant had been previously summoned for the erection of the stack, and was ordered by the Bench to remove i...

In Queensland things arc rather mixed as regards finances, and the Government seems to have got itself into a pretty considerable muddle. That, however, little concerns us, for we have our own troubles to bear, and mistakes to rectify. But :;s reference has been made to this coUiny in the proposed dealing of an important subject, we may be allowed to take for our topic the deficit in the Queensland revenue. This subject, however, we shall only view so far as it concerns ourselves. Telegrams have already informed our readers that there is a deficiency in the revenue of Queensland, which must be made up by vigorous retrenchment in expenditure aud increased taxation. . The difficulty is, as regards the first necessity, where to apply the pruninc knife, and to what extent ; and as to increasing the taxes, in what mode is it to be done ? There are two modes open to the financier for obtaining the revenue, The first is to resort to indirect taxation iu its mildest form, or else gratify th...